Sherbondy in prison for 2 years
COQUILLE When Gwen Sherbondy stole money from a graduation fund for Coquille seniors, she didn t just take $11,665. As a parent helper for the fundraiser, she also betrayed the community s trust to pay for her gambling addiction. It s for this...
 4.2K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 219.0 Sherbondy will hear sentence on Monday
A Coquille woman will soon find out how much time she ll serve behind bars, when a Coos County judge hands down her sentence for looting more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers. On Monday, Gwendolyn Sherbondy will appear in J...
1.0K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 157.0 Dems target overdraft fees
WASHINGTON (AP) Senior congressional Democrats say legislation is still needed to limit when and how lenders charge customers for overdrafts, even though some big banks have curbed their fees for exceeding account balances. Rep. Barney Frank, the c...
2.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 219.0 Coquille woman admits to Project Graduation theft
A Coquille woman who stole more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers could face up to three years in prison, when she is sentenced in Coos County court next month. She can get anywhere from probation to prison time. It will all...
2.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 179.0 Coquille woman admits to Project Graduation theft
A Coquille woman who stole more than $10,000 from a fund for graduating high schoolers could face up to three years in prison, when she is sentenced in Coos County court next month. She can get anywhere from probation to prison time. It will all...
2.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 179.0 Bank robbery foiled by penmanship
HILLSBORO (AP) Police say a bank robbery attempt in Hillsboro failed after a teller told the woman who handed her a threatening note that she couldn t read the handwriting. According to police, a 30-year-old woman walked into a Wells Fargo bank bra...
0.8K - Oct. 1, 2009; scored 575.0 Sherbondy case delayed again
A federal judge has decided to again delay a federal case against a Coquille woman accused of robbing a Roseburg Wells Fargo bank. Federal Judge Thomas Coffin reviewed Gwen Sherbondy s case briefly at U.S. District Court in Eugene on Monday. He then ...
1.0K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 517.0 DA seeks tougher sentencing in theft case
COQUILLE ” If a jury finds a Coquille woman guilty of embezzling money from a party fund for high schoolers, the Coos County District Attorney will have to do quick footwork to get her a sentence more severe than probation. District Attorn...
3.7K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 811.0 Court postpones Sherbondy plea hearing
A judge has yet again delayed a change-plea hearing for a Coquille woman accused of looting a high school graduation party fund. Gwen Sherbondy s attorney will be seeking a settlement with the Coos County district attorney. On Friday, attorney Ronald...
1.6K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 157.0 Judge delays theft plea
A Coos County Circuit Court judge gave a Coquille woman a few more days to enter her plea on a first-degree aggravated theft charge, stemming from the looting of a Coquille High School graduation fund. On Monday, Gwen Sherbondy appeared in Judge Mich...
1.3K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 157.0 Accused robber hopes plea will settle charges
COQUILLE The lawyer for a Coquille woman accused of robbing a Roseburg bank and embezzling a high school graduation fund hopes a single plea deal will settle his client s state and federal charges. I don t know how successful we re going to be in t...
2.2K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 188.0 TARP: Bad assets still threaten banks
WASHINGTON (AP) Despite signs that the financial system has stabilized, banks remain threatened by billions of dollars of bad loans on their balance sheets, and more could fail if the economy worsens, a congressional watchdog reports. In its latest...
4.4K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 227.0 Big banks give stars massive bonuses
NEW YORK Even when their profits dried up and they turned to taxpayers to stay afloat, the nation s biggest banks kept paying huge bonuses. But much of the money went not to top executives, but to star traders and salesmen, even as the economy batt...
4.8K - Aug. 1, 2009; scored 236.0 Wells Fargo surpasses expectations in second quarter
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Wells Fargo Co. joined other big banks in reporting a big second-quarter profit even as losses from failed loans kept rising. The bank said today its earnings, which rose 47 percent from a year earlier, were boosted by the ac...
3.3K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 460.0 CB bank robbery suspect in jail
A former Coos Bay resident, wanted in two bank robberies, walked out of a Eugene motel room with a stripper and into the arms of federal agents. The U.S. marshals Oregon Fugitive Task Force grabbed 39-year-old Dean J. Perri at the Motel 6 on Interna...
2.0K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 186.0 Robbery suspect has violent past
The man suspected of robbing a Coos Bay bank has a violent criminal history in the area, including assaulting a police officer 17 years ago. Investigators suspect former Coos Bay resident Dean J. Perri in holdups of Wells Fargo bank branches in Coos ...
2.6K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 241.0 Police have suspect in bank robbery
Coos Bay police have identified a man they believe might be connected to the Coos Bay Wells Fargo robbery on Friday. Police are looking for Dean J. Perri, 39, formerly of Coos Bay. Perri is described as more than six feet tall, with a medium build an...
1.2K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 162.0 Robber eludes police
Coos Bay police still are searching for a man who robbed the Wells Fargo bank on Friday morning. The suspect, who is considered armed and dangerous, is reportedly about 6 feet tall, medium build with a dark complexion or suntan and is in his 30s or 4...
0.5K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 118.0 Police look for bank robber
COOS BAY Friday was no holiday for bank employees in downtown Coos Bay. One bank robber noticed. At about 9:35 a.m., a Wells Fargo bank teller called Coos Bay police to report the bank had been robbed and the culprit got away with an undisclosed am...
1.5K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 188.0 Police look for bank robber
COOS BAY Friday was no holiday for bank employees in downtown Coos Bay. One bank robber noticed. At about 9:35 a.m., a Wells Fargo bank teller called Coos Bay police to report the bank had been robbed and the culprit got away with an undisclosed am...
1.7K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 719.0 | 
